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Parallels Desktop updated to 9.0.23140

You can’t knock a useful update. Parallels Desktop 9.0.23140 has gone out the door. The new version, a 373.9 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and new features: – Resolves a problem with virtual machines crashing accidentally while running on Macs with OS X 10.9 Mavericks. – Resolves a problem with the Parallels Desktop GUI […]

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Apple, Adobe sandbox Flash Player development for OS X versions

When in doubt, sandbox the sucker. Per Mac|Life, Adobe announced on Wednesday that the latest version of the Safari web browser included with OS X Mavericks now features app sandboxing for Flash Player, following similar moves with browsers from Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Although Flash Player has been sandboxed for some time, for whatever reason […]

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Carbon Copy Cloner updated to 3.5.3

On Tuesday, Carbon Copy Cloner, the shareware favorite for drive cloning operations by Mike Bombich, reached version 3.5.3. The new version, an 11.4 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and changes: – This update is fully qualified on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and now OS […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.9 Mavericks, offers OS upgrade for free

You’ve REALLY been waiting for this one. On Tuesday, Apple released its long-awaited OS X 10.9 Mavericks operating system. The new OS, which stands at roughly a five gigabyte download via OS X’s Software Update utility, offers the following fixes, changes and new features: iBooks: – Download and read books from the iBooks Store. – […]

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Cocktail updated to 7.0 (Mavericks Edition) released

Not all the hefty updates came from Apple today. On Tuesday, shareware developer Maintain released version 7.0 of CocktailCocktail, the popular shareware utility program that allows for additional Mac OS X system tests. The new version, a 2.5 megabyte download, adds the following fixes and features: – Added OS X 10.9 Mavericks compatibility. Cocktail 7.0 […]